KALAMAZOO -- The second day of the annual Kalamazoo Fretboard Festival will begin at 11 a.m. today with a series of presentations, performances and workshops.

The free festival that celebrates the city's long, rich history of stringed instruments will be held at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, 230 N. Rose St.

Among the highlights will be a concert by Kalamazoo gypsy jazz band Who Hit John? and a presentation by museum curator Tom Dietz called “The Life and Legacy of Orville Gibson," about the man who started the famed Gibson Guitars company, which started in Kalamazoo before moving to Nashville, Tenn., in the mid-1980s.